Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 January 2007 09:46, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: Regarding pbzip2, by the way, I gave it a shot last night. Definately faster for the type of archive I was compressing (mp3s in a tar archive). If I remember rightly it was approx 1min30s vs 0min50s. Not quite twice as fast, but a

RE: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-10 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 January 2007 08:40 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions On 10 January 2007 09:46, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: Regarding pbzip2, by the way, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-10 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 12:20, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: By about 1% agreed MP3s are a poor example but it was late last night and I didn't have time to mess around with it much. Going to try with a mix of documents (word processed documents, text, pictures, some video) to see

RE: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-10 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Etaoin Shrdlu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 January 2007 12:15 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions By about 1% agreed MP3s are a poor example but it was late last night

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 January 2007 13:20, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: -Original Message- From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 January 2007 08:40 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions On 10 January 2007 09:46

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-09 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/8/07, Nico Schümann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thread-using way? It's not that nice to see the machine in idle at all^^ Maybe there's any hidden use flag I haven't heard of or so :) Just turn on disk encryption with dm-crypt. That will take care of the extra core is idle problem! ;-

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/9/07, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/8/07, Nico Schümann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thread-using way? It's not that nice to see the machine in idle at all^^ Maybe there's any hidden use flag I haven't heard of or so :) Just turn on disk encryption with dm-crypt. That will take

RE: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-09 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Kent Fredric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 January 2007 18:48 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions On 1/9/07, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/8/07, Nico Schümann

[gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-08 Thread Nico Schümann
Hi folks, I recently set up a Core 2 duo system. Following the AMD64 howto, the system now works. Kernel compilation took 1:40 minutes passing -j6 to make. Then I tried to bunzip a large file and found out that the machine was about 40 % in idle which is clear because bzip2 is only one process.

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-08 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 8 January 2007 21:16, Nico Schümann wrote: Hi folks, I recently set up a Core 2 duo system. Following the AMD64 howto, the system now works. Kernel compilation took 1:40 minutes passing -j6 to make. Then I tried to bunzip a large file and found out that the machine was about 40

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 08 January 2007 14:16, Nico Schümann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions': Then I tried to bunzip a large file and found out that the machine was about 40 % in idle which is clear because bzip2 is only one process. So